- Exercise, I’ve been far to unwell the past few years, I want to lose weight back to where I was, and during the year so I’m ready for the 2012/2013 cricket season. I love my cricket and I want to get back to playing. This includes either exercising at home, pilates to strengthen my back, and eat better.
- Watch more F1, I like my car racing. I’d like to watch it more and keep up with it.
- More gaming, it’s hard with the whole exercise thing, but if I find a balance I’ll be able to do this too.
- Off my P-Plates, I’ve been on them for far too long. I’ve either had the time, or no money to get them. Or vice versa. Time to finish off the whole license thing.

Merry Xmas, Happy New Year, and all that shyte.

I might try and update this more often, although sometimes I think it’s easier just to aim it at my Twitter or something! I’m also thinking of changing the style of posts, instead of just talking about some random shit, I’m going to talk about random shit that pisses me off! Like why I hate it when people stand in the middle of the aisles in the shopping center, and don’t move while they choose which air freshner is better, it all smells better than whatever smell you’re covering up. BITCH!

I might post about some cricket, and try and get back into the game, and also look at improving my fitness as well over the year.

Left a job, started a job, left another job, started another job! The latest job is great, not as stressful as the previous jobs. I find I’m learning a lot more and enjoying the work. It’s also keeping me very busy.

I’m also buying a new car, so lots of test driving. Fingers cross, I should have something soon and some pictures to follow. Also about to move house, again unfortunately. But has to be done.

I’d credit Quark to making me a more thoughful, ok maybe not thoughful. I can’t really think of it. Maybe… careful? technical? designer. I still don’t call myself a designer anymore. I dab in a bit of it from time to time as a hobby. But it’s no longer a full time profession.

I say careful/technical/thoughtful designer, because of how the software behaved. Quark was solid software back then but had so many bugs it made me aware and careful of what I did. If you imported a JPG file in 3.4.. the inevitable. BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH! If you bought in an eps file with the wrong attributes and moved it in a picture box. Quark would magically disappear from your screen.

It also made me obsessive compulsive on using CTRL + S when working.

I remember when I was working at the local newspaper doing the desktop graphics, I had 3 hours before the paper was due to be printed and only just started what was a full page advert in colour. Stacks of photos that needed clipping paths, processing of colours, layout to be done, proofed by the client as well. An hour and half of doing it frantically. I pulled the last image in from file. It was a JPG and I hadn’t saved. I’d watched an hour and a half of solid fast paced work disappear quicker than a Bugatti Veyron can change gears, that’s less than the blink of an eye for the viewers playing at home, as in… I didn’t see my work disappear. It just went.

“F#%K!” I said, and started off on a new page to get the advert done. Luckily I knew where everything was to go in place after staring at it while I made the page. After making the page, the first thing I did was save it, thank god for Autosave files. But entirely useless unless you’ve actually saved it to start with.

I also remember having only 40gb of storage available on our server, I’ve got that hanging off my keyring now. Nearly all my planning was done with a pen and paper. The only time a computer was involved was to send an email or do some advert work.

Some of that may have not changed, but a lot may be done by computer now.

I also prefer a PC over a Mac any day when it comes to designing.